Stephanie Bottrill, 53, was found dead by a motorway last weekend. Earlier, she had posted her keys and a note saying the Government was ‘to blame’ for her death through a neighbour’s door. Her son Steven, 27, told the Sunday … Continue reading
Work Secretary Iain Duncan Smith was urged to apologise to the unemployed tonight after watchdogs rapped him for abusing statistics. The former Tory leader claimed that the Coalition’s decision to cap benefit payments had driven 8,000 people to get a … Continue reading
Last summer, when Mary Laver carried the Olympic torch along Newcastle’s New Bridge Street buoyed up by the cheers and applause of the crowds lining the route, it was as a British hero. The former RAF servicewoman has rheumatoid arthritis … Continue reading
Devoted mum Elizabeth Barry faces sending autistic son Ryan into care because of the Government’s Bedroom Tax. The single parent is the main carer for the 20-year-old, who doctors say has the mental age of a toddler. But the pair, … Continue reading
The case in this article about this woman’s father shows how secret courts are going to be used against those who try and defend their loved ones, you’ll start to see more and more cases like this mark my words? … Continue reading
In her first public interview, Lisa Coleman, the manager who oversees the firm’s contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was asked by BBC Radio 4′s You and Yours programme if she would like to apologise. She replied: … Continue reading
A BBC radio star has beaten the Government in a tribunal after they wrongly claimed she was fit to work as she recovered from intensive chemotherapy and losing both breasts. Val Armstrong, of Carlisle, Cumbria, challenged the Department For Work … Continue reading
George Osborne was seen to wipe away tears at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral Earlier today yet he sheds no tears for the innocent lives he is destroying with his massive cuts to welfare? Osborne and the rest of the elite who … Continue reading
Three disabled claimants have launched a legal action to challenge the government’s more stringent tests for mobility allowances that came into force on Monday. The decision to seek a judicial review of the regulations emerged as the work and pensions … Continue reading
Ms Penhaligon, who was hailed the “face of the decade” in the Seventies and Britain’s answer to Brigitte Bardot, said her late cousin David Penhaligon – the renowned Liberal MP – would be “turning in his grave” over some coalition … Continue reading